Quotes

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one whi lies with sincerity.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

The color of truth is grey.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.

Long only for what you have.

“Antioch was the last of the great cities of Arab Asia to have fallen under the domination of the Seljuk Turks: in 1084 it was still a dependency of Constantinople. Thirteen years later, when the Frankish knights laid siege to the town, Yaghi-SiyÁn was naturally convinced that this was part of an attempt”

“It seems clear that the Arab East still sees the West as a natural enemy. Against that enemy, any hostile action-be it political, military, or based on oil-is considered no more than legitimate vengeance. And there can be no doubt that the schism between these two worlds dates from the Crusades, deeply felt by the Arabs, even today, as an act of rape”

“Our bodies may be extensions of our words. But they can neither replace nor refute them.”

“In my eyes, every murderous case loses its appeal. No matter how beautiful it is, it turns ugly, deteriorates and degrades. No case that allies with death can be justified.”

“Let the confusion begin, no one can stop it, no one can escape, and some look for ways to take advantage of it.”